Hi Hubert Evan’s plugin is the right thing to use if you can; the core doesn’t include a builtin clock/timer because my early experiments showed that it can be quite punishing on power consumption/battery life.
Best wishes Jeremy > On 22 Jan 2019, at 14:35, Hubert <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, I've found this plugin > <https://evanbalster.com/tiddlywiki/formulas.html#Timer%20Plugin> by Evan > Balster, version 0.0.1 that does exactly what I'm looking for. > > That said, I'd still love to hear your ideas though, especially the > background TW mechanics/limitations/other solutions to this problem. > > Thank you, > Hubert > > On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:14:40 UTC, Hubert wrote: > Hi everyone, > > If I understand correctly, most content within a tiddler is static. Inline > javacript is not allowed, so macros will only re-calculate their output on > user interaction with a tiddler. For example, the <<now>> macro or Evan > Balster's <<formula>> macro will recalculate their output when the built-in > "More actions" TW button is pressed (it's located in the upper-right corner > of each tiddler frame). > > What I'm trying achieve is make stuff happen with time being the trigger. The > simplest example would be building an auto-updating clock using the <<now>> > macro (this could be faked using SVG animations but that's not what I'm > looking for). Another example would be a reveal widget that will suddenly > display content when the current time matches a predefined value but without > any user interaction whatsoever. Such a solution would need to somehow 'see' > on its own that the time has changed. Is this possible? > > Thank you in advance for sharing your ideas/knowledge. > > -Hubert > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fb51bbb5-2009-4c90-9188-819785ac0954%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fb51bbb5-2009-4c90-9188-819785ac0954%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/D0439939-62BF-4F51-8E93-5DB16E35873A%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
